I left my husband and kids to move to Cyprus and go clubbing four times a week – I just want to live my life

Amanda Moss says “I was 48 and thought ‘f**k this”

A mum-of-six dramatically changed her life when she left a 25-year marriage and a high-paying job to soak up the sun in Ayia Napa and hit the clubs four times a week, all while her children remain in the UK.

Amanda Moss, 53, embraced a new beginning in Cyprus in May 2020 after separating from her husband. Seeking a “life with truth”, she shed four stone in weight and began experimenting with cosmetic treatments like Botox.

Trading in gruelling 12-hour shifts for a tranquil five hours of work on the beach, Amanda’s earnings now sit at around £50k, but she boasts of a far superior work-life balance.

Running her magazine and PR business, Amanda still finds time to go clubbing several times a week.

Her kids—Saxon, 24, Honey, 23, Floyd, 21, Albany, 19, a 16-year-old, and an 11-year-old —remain in the UK, but visit during school breaks to catch up with their adventurous mum.

Describing her former life, Amanda, from Liverpool, said: “I was miserable. I thought ‘Is this my life?’

“Covid just hit and at the end I just moved here. In the UK I was probably making £120k per year and I was working from 5am as soon as I woke up.

“I was working a minimum of 12 hours a day and now I probably work five hours a day but I have a much healthier work life balance.

“I earn around £50k and I could earn more, but I just want to live my life.

“The fact I’m my own boss now means I can tell people who are arseholes to f*ck off. I go clubbing three to four times a week.

“My daughter, Honey, 23, wants me to go to the club with her and she’s like ‘that’s my mum’.”

Amanda first experienced life in Cyprus after purchasing a holiday home, where she took her children when they were young.

After visiting the island multiple times, she finally moved into her holiday home she purchased in 2008, permanently in May 2020, after her business collapsed due to Covid.

In 2020, her three daughters moved over for a year with her, but Amanda moved them back to the UK after finding the education system there better.

“I was 48 and thought ‘f*ck this’,” she said.

“I’d slept in a bedroom on my own since my youngest child was born and she’s 11. Every time I’d come back to Liverpool I’d be crying.

“My two eldest, Floyd and Honey, said ‘why don’t you move? You’re happiest there’.”

Amanda also went on to lose four stone after eating “for comfort all my life”.

She said: “I got to a size 18 and 15st and I thought ‘this isn’t me’.

“I hated being fat. I started going to the gym and met friends at the gym.

“I trained as a body pump instructor. I really started to believe in myself.

“How many people have the balls to get on a plane and say ‘I don’t want this life anymore?’.

“People always say to me ‘you’re so inspirational to me, I wish I could do what you do’. And I say ‘you can, just book it’.

“I haven’t done anything extraordinary, I just booked a flight.”

Amanda has experienced some negativity online due to her new life.

“I’ve been trolled,” she said.

“People have said I’m irresponsible. My kids are supportive.

“I think I’ve taught my kids to live their life as they wish and not be told society’s expectations of what they should do. I just want them to experience life in all its glory.”

Now Amanda starts her day at the gym.

“I do that more for my mental health,” she said.

“Depending on the time of year I’ll go to the beach for two or three hours.

“Then I’ll come back for a nap and then meet friends or carry on working until I go to bed.”

Amanda estimates she spends around £400 each month on Botox, nails, lashes and her gym membership, although is she gets “that for free as I get them through my clients”.

“Everything I do for my aesthetics and beauty regime is for me,” she said.

“I feel good and I’m investing in myself.”

Glamorous Amanda confesses she is “a little bit vain but I’ve earned it”.

She said: “It’s the whole self-love thing, because I’ve felt all my life I’m fat and ugly. Now I’m super fit, I train every day in the gym aside from Sundays.

“I have more energy than half the people my age. Life is a gift to take control of.

“My next thing I want to do is fall in love with a rich handsome guy – I’m sick of working.

“I’m living my truth, and I think people envy that. I sound really up my own arse but I’m not.

“I didn’t think I was living up to my full potential for the last 30 to 40 years and I’m making up for it.”

You can follow Amanda on Instagram and TikTok under @amandalifestylepr.

Amanda is also set to release her new book ‘You’re going to die so do it anyway – live life louder after 50’ next month.

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